On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 12:41:59PM +0200, Gero Treuner wrote:
This notifies about possible problems and transparently shows sender's
responsibility. If one of the users then complains at aliexpress I'm
fine with it ;-)
if you think that being a dick to the mutt user is a constructive way to
address things, then sure. that trying to educate multi-billion dollar
companies with hundreds of developers about their technical deficiencies
totally works has already been proven by the microsoft example,
riiiiight?
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 11:28:29AM +0000, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
This change will make mutt emit bad References fields in a reply. Is
that acceptable?
given that these messages are by definition responses and will typically
go back straight to the initial perpetrator, that seems rather
acceptable.
the second point is that such messages typically come from some no-reply
address in the first place. i noticed the problem only because i tried
to locally thread the notifications via the link-threads function.
furthermore, assuming that MUAs actually understand that the angle
brackets are only syntax and not actually part of the message-id, it
would be ok to generate references with angle brackets even if the
original message-ids lacked them. in the case of aliexpress the at-sign
would be still missing, but i don't think this violation is of much
consequence, and it's better than nothing anyway.
